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Monday, February 11, 2002
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/magistr.shtml Magistr Continues to Spread ALIAS: IWorm_Magistr, I-Worm.Magistr, W32/Magistr@mm VARIANT: Magistr.A Magistr is a very dangerous memory resident Win32 worm combined with virus infection routines. It was found in-the-wild in the middle of March 2001. Magistr virus spreads via Internet with infected emails, infects Windows executable files on an affected machine (local machine) and is able to spread itself over a local network (LAN). The virus has an extremely dangerous payload, and depending on different conditions it erases hard drive data, CMOS memory and Flash Bios contents in the same way the Win95.CIH (aka Chernobyl) virus does....
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